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Not long ago someone asked if we would be visiting a railroad museum as part of our summer vacation. I just got back from a week up at Lake Nickajack, to the south of Chattanooga, TN. While there I got to visit the Tennessee Valley Railroad museum... complete with three mile ride behind a beautiful steam locomotive, number 610. I'm an associate member of The Heart of Dixie railroad museum, in Calera, Alabama; have fallen in love with a restored E unit painted in Southern Crescent colors at the museum at Duluth, Georgia; and ridden in an air conditioned diner at the North Carolina Railroad Museum. I've done the train/ river rafting package on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad, too. Back in my misspent youth, my father and I dragged my mother and my icky kid sister off to ride the Cranberry train at Edaville, in Massachussetts, and the original Steamtown in Barrie, Vermont. I continued the forced addiction to trains with my son by a visit to the East Broad Top museum in Pennsylvania many years ago. And I have taken a beautiful ride up the Connecticut River on the Essex steam railroad. All that to say that my favorite museum has to be the TVRM. Live steam on a weekday. Guided tour through their shop. Huge collection of steam and diesel locomotives that you can actually go up to and touch; you can even peer inside the cabs of some of them, and even sit down in the engineer's seat on a few. What museums did you all visit on your summer vacation? What's your favorite, and why? Erik
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